The Science Of Education - Is Human Interaction Better Than Videos?

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 09:49 in Psychology & Sociology

There's no shortage of new theories about how kids help to learn better.   Unfortunately when it comes to kids and education, the only way to measure success is after the fact when it may already be too late. Recent work is focusing on social learning.  It says that infants and young children learn from imitation and by following the actions of those around them, adopting mannerisms and speech patterns.  A new study sought to compare television/computers and audio versus face-to-face human interaction in learning. read more

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